A Christmas Mini-Retreat An empty, echoing room lined with lights and tinsel. Open, unfilled space, not yet prepared. An invitation left unsent. Shadows and darkness ping off of the walls. And the knock on the door goes unnoticed. These words offer a picture of a soul longing for the fullness of Jesus even among the […]
Letting Go
Her words stung. I sat listening silently, feeling sicker by the minute as she continued telling me what she thought of me. I thought I knew her, and that she knew me. I was in shock that her view of me was so far from who I knew myself to be. I was unable to […]
Feeling Blinded
Editors Note: This is a guest post from Discipling Faculty member, Grace Cabalka, regarding the rawness we all feel around the violence we see in our culture today. We invite you to join Grace’s journey, and the rest of the leadership team at TLI, in honest personal reflection and communal lament. I recently finished a […]
Training
My recent pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago would not have been the same if I had not trained for it. As soon as my friend, Kay, and I decided we were going to embark on this adventure we began training. She flew up to meet me in Tennessee and we took our first walk […]
Love Beyond Words
“Are you satisfied that you are at the destination?” My co-instructor asked this question of the two women standing in front of us. It was an early evening a few days into a 6-day challenge expedition for a group of families doing pre-field training to prepare for the mission field. The women looked at each […]
The Complexity of Simplicity
One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. Psalm 27:4 There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary […]
Brambles and Briars
Brambles! Maya and Steven stared ahead. After several minutes of uncertain glances at the compass and then back to the brambly woods in front of them, they led the group onward, promptly turning north to walk along the road. A quarter of a mile later, the scenario repeated, only this time they sought advice. They […]
